Injuries

[I-Heart-Beam]

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Originally Posted by GymnastRaeRae87 Isn't it funny how gymnasts can be so clumsy?

Yeah it is! And then when you actually get on the apparatus you're so graceful! My friends laugh cos they say I can't walk down the street without falling over yet my favourite thing is beam!

[MoonKid]

I've been lucky enough to never be seriously injured, although I have had a few minor injuries.

- I sprained my toe vaulting (I didn't make it all the way to handstand came back down and two of my toes went on either side of a spring in the mini-tramp)
- I pulled a muscle in my back when I bailed on a backhandspring (I was going to do roundoff 2 BHS but bailed on my first one)
- I've also roled my ankle more times than I can count
- I also have a messed up wrist


Some funny injuries/falls I've had:

- Got tramp-burn on my knee by bailing on a roundoff on the tumbletrack (I still to this day have no idea how I managed to do that)
- I've also overotated a few front-tucks and landed on my stomach (it never hurts when I do that though)

[MaggiesRanda]

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Originally Posted by I-Heart-Beam Yeah it is! And then when you actually get on the apparatus you're so graceful! My friends laugh cos they say I can't walk down the street without falling over yet my favourite thing is beam!

I totaly agree with you! (Well, except the beam part) I can be graceful when it comes to walking I am such a klutz. My friends dont believe me when I say that I can do gymnastics with out tripping!

[maddiekate]

i didn't have a bad injury, but today i was on the trampoline and it was like 7:30 at night, so it was almost completely dark, but you could still see. I did a really good full, but over rotated, so i landed on my feel first, but then fell on my back and my arm went through the springs and i landed on my back on the bar. i almost fell off the trampoline. I'm really glad that we don't have one of those safety net things, because my head would have gone through it. My arm was bleeding, and my back is bruised.

[Masters_Gymnast93]

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Originally Posted by TDiver I have broken both my feet at different times. And a stress frature in the left one at the end of last year. Broken foot was from a level 9 meet... I broke it on my 1 and half punch front on floor in the middle of competition but finished the routine!

My friend Connie was beautiful on bars...anyway, she was a L9 doing a straddle back during a meet and hit her heels on the bar and broke both of her feet.
D=

[GymnastRaeRae87]

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Originally Posted by Masters_Gymnast93 My friend Connie was beautiful on bars...anyway, she was a L9 doing a straddle back during a meet and hit her heels on the bar and broke both of her feet. D=

I know how she feels, broken feet are a major bummer.

[MaggiesRanda]

I have another funny injury...

We were sitting on the beams watching eachother do handstands or something like that and I went to scoot back a little more so i could get comfortable, but I ended up falling over and fliping and landing on my stomach. Every one was laughing really hard and it kinda hurt, but it was funny.

[GymnastRaeRae87]

Today my team and I had a performance so we went to the church it was at and the grass was soaked. I'm not even kidding it was way soaked. The sprinkler system must have been automatic because it was terrible. Just stepping in the grass for a second got our feet really wet and we have an AirTrak so we were trying really hard to get our feet dry on the mats. We stopped mini tramp because our feet were slipping on the tramp part. It was a good demo but the grass being soaked wasn't great but no one got hurt which was good!

[gymnast4life]

I just started gym about a year and a 1\2 ago. I have had about 4 injuries so far.

Injury:
1. My big toe came off on vault. I had to get a million stitches for them to put it back on but I was only out for about 3 weeks. I now have a nasty scar on it. Very painful injury.
2. Broke my leg doing a press to handstand on the beam. Weird landings explain everything!
3. I can dislocate my shoulder on demand ever since I got a really bad rope burn on it. I was at my friends cottage and I went off of her rope swing into the lake. First time I do it, the rope get wrapped all the way around my arm and I slide down the rope until I hit the water just hanging from my arm. Obviously, this pulled my shoulder out of the socket, but when I hit the water the pressure pushed it back in. I didn't go to the hospital because it didn't hurt, the cut was the only thing that hurt. Now, while I'm doing gymnastics, my shoulder will dislocate randomly. Mostly on uprises and backwalkovers on beam. It has only happened once at a meet, and that was a 0.8 that I am not willing to take again.
4. I'm a klutz. I roll my ankles and feet all of the time. I am always breaking and spraining my toes.

[I-Heart-Beam]

[quote=gymnast4life;12177]My big toe came off on vault. quote]

OMG!!!!!! I didn't know that could happen!!!